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Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path

Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy pathCisco should buy themI recently saw an ad for "Cisco Telepresence."If Ojo isn't the best product to add to their teleconferencing portfolio, I don't know what is. It's been out a while, people have them, and incorporating Ojo into their stable...

Tags: Litigation, Telephony, Cellular phones, Ojo, bankruptcy path, videophone, bankruptcy, VoIP

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

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FCC: Comcast contradicts itself in claim agency has no power over it

Not surprising..They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now want to deny it. So of course they will change their tune when any type of action is taken. Comcast needs to be strung up from the tallest tree and hung for the world to see. I...

Tags: Federal government, agency, FCC, Comcast Corp., legal argument

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?

In a dramatic, unprecedented proposal, the current White House is looking at an absolute fuel efficiency minimum for all new cars and light trucks in America. Shocked, I tell you, shocked. If Detroit weren't already numbed by bankruptcy, it would be shocked. But ocwed by their...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-18

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'

IBM's Mills: 'Find me a company not interested in SOA principles'SOA is DOAYes, check back a few years and you will see that it WAS me that coined that phrase. I should have said that SOA is RPC.[I challenge anybody in the room to bring forward a company anywhere in...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, IBM Corp., SOA, information technology, application asset

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our money

Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our moneyEthics are personalEthics are a personal matter. The fact that there are many people who don't have them can be frustrating, annoying, and a major PITA. BUT, their lack NEVER gives me an excuse to behave the same. I choose to keep...

Tags: Business ethics, Personal finance, Operational accounting, Litigation, Microsoft Corp., Borg, worker, ethics

Discussion threads 2009-02-22

Sirius XM agrees to $530 million Liberty Media stake

With the threat of bankruptcy looming large last week, troubled Sirius XM Radio announced today that it will accept a $530 million investment from cable giant Liberty Media. The $530 million investment, which will save the satellite radio company from bankruptcy or a hostile takeover, will...

Tags: XM Satellite Radio Inc., Sirius, Liberty Media Corp., Satellite Radio, Satellite TV, Litigation, Investment, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Finance, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Closing time: Circuit City will liquidate

It's closing time at Circuit City. The company said Friday that it plans to liquidate the assets of its company. Circuit City, which filed for bankruptcy late last year, said in a statement that its attempt to sell itself fell through. The company will now close its...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-16

GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo Finance

GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo FinanceWhy won't bankruptcy help?It worked for the airlines. They got all kinds of leverage to break / renegotiate labor contracts and pay only pennies on the dollar for old debt, and they're still in business.So WTH?RE: GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo FinanceI...

Tags: Financial accounting, bailout case, General Motors Corp., Yahoo Finance, finance, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Misinformation travels fast

One of the amazing things about the age we live in is the speed at which information propagates, whether correct or not. Matthew Brown of Forrester Research touched on this recently on September 11th (an infamous date of course, which seven years ago had everyone clamoring for information to find...

Tags: Community, Information Technology, Social Software, Engineers, Collaboration, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-22

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Dear Pamela Jones:

Dear Pamela Jones:Why settle1) because the real meaning of that "middle east money" business is that the apparent IBM strategy of changing the subject and then spending SCO into bankruptcy fighting on the wrong topic has failed;2) and, because if IBM has to contest on the facts of the initial...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., Pamela Jones, IBM Corp., Maureen O'Gara, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-02-17

Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path

Tom Keating is one of those VoIP bloggers who understands business and technology, and mixes journalistic doggedness with the backgrounding of an engineer. I say this because Tom reports this morning that Worldgate Communications is experiencing a financial rough patch. A really bad...

Tags: VoIP, Videophone, Worldgate Communications, Bankruptcy, Tom Keating, Litigation, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Sun to acquire MySQL

Sun to acquire MySQLSo long, MySQL, you go to a slow lingering death...This is *NOT* good news for MySQL fans.If Sun does it right, they CAN satisfy both camps. And, it IS GPL, so itCAN be forked and Sun knows that. Look for Sun to play nice.RE: Sun to...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, SUN Now, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Developer hearts and minds

Developer hearts and mindsIdeologically Constrained...It's perfectly understandable with you being an empolyee of Microsoft that you are not capable of seeing this objectively.If people choose to use Windows I say go for it. However when I see what amounts to a huge potential threat to Linux/FOSS as it curently exists...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Red Hat lawyer is right about indemnification not mattering. But for the wrong reasons

According to a new FAQ on Red Hats Web site -- one thats primarily designed to spin the bilateral legal protection that Microsoft and Novell have assured to each other as a net positive for Red Hat -- the North Carolina-based distributor of open source software will now offer indemnification...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, indemnification

Blog posts 2006-11-06

One of these seven fates awaits Vonage

Vonage, which started out in the public markets as a company with a $17 a share IPO valuation, has been in the "sevens" for several weeks now.Right now, it doesn't appear that the company's stock will go much lower or higher in the short term. For at least the near-term...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-10-30

The problem at Sun: is in the middle

The problem at Sun: is in the middleRespectfully disagreeThe "responsibility" system is tough, and can be criticised, but other approaches are worse. Thus the captain of a ship IS responsible for mistakes made by subordinates while the captain is not on duty. Because it is the captain's job to be...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., captain

Discussion threads 2006-04-18

Microsoft makes EU dispute documents public

Microsoft makes EU dispute documents publicM$ is finished!Nobody believes your lies, Gate$.You can stick a fork in your company and donate the code to FSF, so it won't go to waste completely.The EU case is TOASTOk, I took the time to look through the reports from third parties and the...

Tags: Linux, EU Case, Microsoft Corp., Lewis

Discussion threads 2006-02-23